Iran State TV station FARS announced Saturday morning that four American dual-nationality prisoners were released from Iranian custody in a “prisoner swap” with the United States.
The Moroccan navy on Thursday blocked the Mediterranean harbour in which a controversial Dutch “abortion ship” was due to dock in the first such trip to a Muslim country, one of the organisers said. But access to the harbour was
An Egyptian court on Thursday ordered the release of two Coptic Christian children accused of insulting Islam, a source in the prosecutor’s office said. He told AFP that prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmud took the decision because the accused, aged nine
(AP) Turkey renews artillery strikes on SyriaBy SUZAN FRASERAssociated PressANKARA, TurkeyTurkey fired on Syrian targets for a second day Thursday but said it has no intention of declaring war, despite tensions after deadly shelling from Syria killed five civilians in
In the spring of this year, Al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine called for operatives to set forest fires in the U.S., yet a connection between the terrorist group and our fires was never made. However, The Telegraph is reporting that the connection
Turkey’s state media reports that Turkey’s Parliament has passed legislation allowing Turkish troops to move into Syria after shelling from Syrian territory killed five Turkish citizens. This legislation gives the Turkish government an open door for one year to send
LONDON (Reuters) – A leading media watchdog has accused Iran of trying to cow journalists into silence and self-censorship, adding to international pressure on Tehran over its treatment of activists and the press. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Thursday he believes “the Arab Spring will be followed by a Persian Spring,” with international sanctions against Iran leading to renewed domestic unrest. His remarks came a day after scuffles broke out in central
(Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez faces the toughest election of his 14-year rule on Sunday in a vote pitting his charisma and oil-financed largesse against fresh-faced challenger Henrique Capriles’ promise of jobs, safer streets and an end to cronyism.
An explosion followed by an exchange of fire with rebels in a Damascus province on Thursday left at least 21 members of Syria’s elite Republican Guards unit dead, a watchdog said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had reported an
Sanctions on Iran appear to have taken a toll on that nobody saw coming, and Israel is now wondering which will happen first — a nuclear weapon or regime change? Reports indicate that the value of Iran’s rial has plunged
U.S. Documents containing sensitive diplomatic information remain unsecured in the torched Benghazi consulate attacked on the anniversary of September 11th. With the FBI and others still not on site to secure the premises, it is feared documents which the Obama
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Turkish army returns fire after Syrian shells kill five in Turkey Iran’s currency crash brings riots and government crisis Turkish army returns fire after Syrian shells kill five in Turkey The Syria conflict took
Former VP Dick Cheney said the Obama administration’s handling of Benghazi looks like a cover-up and that Obama’s claim to victory in the War on Terror is “hogwash” in a Tuesday radio interview. Cheney told radio host Sean Hannity: “It looks
Just two weeks after the US Embassy in Egypt was ransacked by terrorists and a band of Egyptian thugs, President Obama announced that he would provide Egypt’s new Muslim Brotherhood government with an emergency infusion of $450 million in US
If President Obama is such a good friend of Israel, why did he pick Salam Al-Marayati, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, as one of his representatives to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ‘s Human Dimension
A report in The Telegraph suggests the White House is considering drone strikes in Mali against Al Qaeda. According to the report, the attacks could be carried out by intelligence agencies rather than the U.S. military per se. This allows
Today, a Defense Department official confirmed to Breitbart News that there is advance planning for a “substantial air package” against targets in Libya. Military sources suggest that this means that flight missions against Libyan targets will include manned flights, not
In an interview with Vanity Fair, President Obama announced today that if the Navy SEALs had captured Osama Bin Laden alive, the administration would have signed off on a prosecution in federal court. “We worked through the legal and political
The Obama administration thought al Qaeda would not attack U.S. interests on the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, but recent reports indicate that al Qaeda was directly involved in at least four attacks on U.S. embassies on or around
(Reuters) – Libya and the United States have yet to agree how a U.S. investigative team will cooperate in a probe into a deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, a senior Libyan official said on Tuesday. FBI
Three weeks after a deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi little is known about how and why the assault happened or who was behind it, amid mounting concern over possible security lapses. Four Americans died in the hours-long
Moroccans voiced opposition on Wednesday to the imminent arrival of a Dutch “abortion boat,” on its first visit to a Muslim country to provide abortions to women that organisers say might otherwise be exposed to grave health risks. Chafik Chraibi,
(AP) Islamists in Mali recruit, pay for child soldiersMOPTI, MaliIslamists in northern Mali have recruited and paid for as many as 1,000 children from rural towns and villages devastated by poverty and hunger. The Associated Press spoke with four children
As Pakistan’s mullahs railed against a US-made anti-Islam film, Naveed Haider’s print works went into overdrive, running off hundreds of US flags for angry protesters to burn at demonstrations. Weeks of protests in Pakistan over the crudely made “Innocence of
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: China and Japan in naval standoff in East China Sea Military intervention in Mali comes a step closer Lebanon confirms that Hizbollah is fighting in Syria Iran’s Ahmadinejad blames disastrous fall of rial on
